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new website with twenty four seven live streaming newsstands what to do about it ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find on main street moves among the set of any of the political. posting more on r t the last. matter flimsy low and vacuum has told them rachel that is when it meant nothing people are suggesting she's told her no she says she's
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a porn star. lol . the love. my friends and i told time award goes to a couple of g.o.p.
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lawmakers and tennessee now these two g.o.p. lawmakers in the volunteer state of introduced a bill that would for big teachers from speaking about homosexuality in public elementary and middle schools the don't say gay bill and yes it's actually called that it says that teachers in public or elementary public elementary or middle schools cannot provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality this bill was introduced in both the tennessee house and senate by republican states out of their spacey campfield and republican representative bill done that knoxville and they claim that it's a parent's job to talk about homosexuality not to teachers now my question for the two lawmakers is do you really think elementary and middle school students don't already know about homosexuality and you basically have to live under a rock to not know that it exists even if you're young there are t.v.
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shows there are movies with gay characters they have gay politicians gay actors gave musicians last there's that thing called the internet with a simple few keystrokes on google you can find about just anything that you want to know. it's really not a secret that gay people exist in the world so maybe can't feel dumb or just. being that you know if you don't talk about gay people they'll just go away i've got to close their eyes and pray for a world free of gay people at night and you know that is that's called being homophobic not to mention their bill is biased against gays travels on free speech and is a case of over gov overreaching government a bigger issue here is that lawmakers are wasting taxpayer money and time on stupid legislation like this tennessee currently has a nine point one percent unemployment rate last year nearly one point six million residents and businesses filed for bankruptcy in a volunteer state and the state only has a sixty percent graduation rate for its students so is this really something
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a lot makers should be focused on are attending the gay people don't exist that's why tennessee republican state senator stacey campfield and republican representative bill done are tonight's tool time winners for their stupid don't say a bill. now it's nothing new for robotics to have a role in military operations but there's one company that's really been at the forefront of innovation these days austin dynamics the company has been working on a series of robots to work through rugged terrain to aid soldiers when they're on the battlefields so take a look at some of the different designs and robotics the boston dynamics has already created. almost creepy how all those things move isn't it but get this now the tech company
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is going to take their efforts a step further they've been awarded the contract from darpa they plan on building the robo cheetah it's essentially going to be exactly like these other of art that we showed you but much faster and it could possibly have a head and a tail robotic of course and she was designed to be a four legged robot with a flexible spine an articulated head and it's designed to run faster than the fastest human i guess that's why they need the cheetah now aside from aging soldiers in battle and designers say if the cheated could be used for more domestic things like helping firefighters even agricultural projects although those descriptions are a little bit of a a little boring we imagine something much more exciting like the robot she is chasing enemies through the desert but this does take us right back to a question that we brought up before the rise of the machines we've spoken about how watson school that humans are in jeopardy now we just might have robots schooling our soldiers on the battlefield at least when it comes to speed.
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now over the last few weeks we've reported on the show about the g.o.p. assault on women's reproductive rights taking place across the u.s. a true war against women and in recent weeks lawmakers in south dakota nebraska and iowa have all introduced bills that would have expanded justifiable homicide statutes to cover killings committed in the presence of an unborn child and critics and law enforcement officials voiced concern that these measures could invite violence against abortion providers possibly even provide legal cover to the perpetrators of such crimes but it turns out of those bills in south dakota nebraska and iowa were very similarly worded and for good reason according to mother jones dot com a washington based group is behind these bills and in fact they even helped write that americans united for life as an anti-abortion group and they were invigorated with republicans swept into power last november in the house the g.o.p.
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also had the gains on the state level and that's what americans united for life went to work they began pushing bills that promoted a culture of life and it's half the rights that women have fought for for decades they've also been behind efforts to defund planned parenthood which passed in the house earlier this month and on their website they have a plea for money so they can lobby congress to cut off all funding for planned parenthood for good now they don't tell you as that are all funded money that planned parenthood gets isn't used on abortions it's used to help protect women's health care screenings use the test for as d.d.'s cancer to educate people so it looks like all these bills which attack women are to springing up organically in states around the country though they're not just one off incidents they are being written and cautioned by a lobbyist group out of washington d.c. and thanks to the investigative journalism being done by mother jones there's no way that anybody can deny any longer that there is a national campaign being waged against women. now is the entire u.s.
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government giant ponzi scheme bernie made off the man who ran the largest ponzi even in history says so in a new series of interviews with new york magazine steve fishman after calling fishman collect from prison where he's serving one hundred fifty years of sentencing it seems like made off wanted to get a few things off his chest personally he says that he's a good person and he can't believe that nobody wants to hear about all the good things he did as a successful businessman despite the fact that he also is now known as the world's worst swindler when it comes to wall street banks government regulations he likes to spread the blame again calling out the banks that he worked with saying they had to know that there were problems saying that it's unbelievable that no one from goldman sachs has any criminal convictions after the financial crash at which point he also called the new regulatory reform of wall street a joke and called the entire government a ponzi scheme with a good person quote is
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a little bit questionable when it comes to wall street and the government is he right joining me from our studio in los angeles is richard as senior fellow at the campaign for america's future now richard thanks so much for joining us when you hear bernie madoff say that the u.s. government the entire u.s. government is a ponzi scheme but do you think he means by that. well it's actually not that obvious because it sticks out it's separate from everything else he says and his interview look. bernie it's like asking charlie sheen for dating advice you know i mean i don't know where you go with bernie exactly except that that phrase when people say that the government is a ponzi scheme they're usually talking about social security and nothing could be further from the truth but he doesn't explain what he means by that he says all sorts and odd things he says his father invented that joe palooka boxing toy that
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i played with when i was a kid and i went on the internet i couldn't find any proof of that his father was a stockbroker so you know bernie used bernie and i think when your producer first said let's talk about what bernie made off i had to say i thought what on earth could he say that was of interest but it was interesting to hear him say that banks had to know what he was doing and that the money he was putting in their or accounts wasn't legitimate about that i think is probably a great they did know there's evidence that of internal memos century people work in chase and maybe citibank as well so that part's quite interesting actually but yeah you're right the bernie of a dog isn't necessarily the person that you know most people would look to for advice or they're paid handsomely want to hear you know pointing fingers and criticizing other institutions but in certain cases do you think that he has a bit of a point when he says that the new regulations on wall street are a complete joke you know when he says that that wall street is also reads even for
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investors does he have some points there and like you mentioned the fact that the banks have to know what he was doing. oh absolutely first of all no i wouldn't call the regulations a joke the new regulations but they're not nearly enough and you know you always go to a guy like bernie made off to find out how to get around something and is easy to get around and i think that there are ways to get around the new regulations and i think he would know that i think that and terms of other people knowing what he was up to as i said like working chait's they should've known there were certainly every reason for them to know and in terms of defrauding investors look there's no question i mean we have to be careful what we say on television about individuals but if you go through as i have done and read the testimony in the evidence on let's say a i.g. which is a company where i used to work it's illegal to make false statements to investors
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on an investor call and yet there's evidence after evidence that the auditors were sent out of the room people knew the numbers were right that they hadn't been tracked and then one phone calls with investors and said everything's fine it's all good it amazes me that nobody's been indicted for that and i think in that sense old bernie has a point now i am going to and i guess you could wonder if bernie is just a little bit bitter because he's the one sitting in jail and no one else has been accountable for the same time what what is the excuse and what is the excuse for the fact that not one single person from wall street has shown up in a courtroom or has been put in jail for the crash of the economy in two thousand and eight. look it's astonishing and it's it's terrible i mean i think the excuse that people would get is there's no clear evidence of wrongdoing there's a lot of parents judgment and so on i would argue first of all that there's pretty clear evidence of wrongdoing and we know for example wells fargo bank the unit
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there was laundering money for the mexican drug cartels and it's pretty good evidence but as one senate investigator said about that situation they these banks are too big to fail they don't want to create an indictment that might cause a financial institution to go down so i think what's really going on and i think it's a tragic mistake but i think people have made the decision that to indict certain individuals would destabilize the financial system i'd say the opposite is true i'd say that as long as you let people get away with criminal fraud sort of behavior they'll do it again because they have no reason not to and that's what really stabilizes the economy and you wonder you know i mean our european counterparts have done this they have gone after people and i feel like there really is no excuse for the fact that the u.s. government hasn't and you know it's a little ironic but one thing that i found funny that bernie madoff said is that he was really complaining that nobody remembered all the good things that he did as
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a successful businessman and yet that's the way that our government really is treating these banks and these financial firms that are too big to fail is they're only looking at their successes and perhaps that none of their failures richard thanks so much for joining us. absolutely. now so the contact show and tell plus goodbye craigslist online hookers have a new place to find customers find out where when we come back and then protecting your online privacy would you be willing to sell your personal information and that what rights to discuss all of that just not the way. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions compelled to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is soon to you with a global missionary see where are we hiding state controlled capitalism it's called sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t.
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question more. oh oh oh oh the oh the
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. hey guys welcome to the show intel going to show we've heard our guests talk to say on the topic now we want to hear. just go on to you tube video response or the twitter part of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is. all right so it's time for show and tell and its program last time we spoke about unrest in the middle east and the fact that it's had on oil and gas prices prices have already gone up and it's protected will continue to increase throughout the summer so we want to know what you thought if the u.s. should approach this matter by using the drill baby drill approach or by investing
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in alternative energy options and here is what some of you had to say on facebook trust her long agrees with the latter he said china is investing in green energy why not us joshua lawson a great said i do not believe that we have a significant enough supply to justify the potential damage to the environment alternative energy is the way to go christina jaded barham says now is the time to invest in alternative energy options before we don't have an earth left to live on now canine cod disagrees he's with the motto drill baby drill thomas bakers is looking for a middle ground he said both and alex can't respond on you tube saying that in the budget aspect all oil export is should increase production to offset the shortage in the middle east supply into the revolutions green energy cannot substitute oil in the short run however lesson learned we cannot depend on oil thanks as always for your responses and here's our next topic of discussion we just spoke about the latest interviews from bernie made off and then he passed the blame for his ponzi
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scheme called the new regulatory reform of the big banks a total joke and then claimed that the entire u.s. government is. just a ponzi scheme those are some bold statements from made up but we wanted you to sound off on his comments so do you think that the u.s. government is a ponzi scheme you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. as you remember the days when craigslist was the place to go if somebody was searching for a one night romance you could simply pretend that you were looking for a couch and then surf the night away looking at men or women and in their casual encounters section you can find somebody who is ready to get it on simply by showing what kind of encounter you prefer but thanks to lawmakers hearing about it those days are over that entire section was removed from the site but now it looks like escorts have moved their business to a new web site and surprisingly we're talking about facebook that's right according
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to a recent study at columbia university eighty three percent of sex workers now rely on a facebook to advertise their business now i know you're thinking how could people advertise themselves without be obvious well it turns out that it's easier than you might think take this profile of a girl named eva for example her profile picture she is close while still pretty scandalous but check out her employment information says independent as scores the one you prefer and if you go to her about me section she gives a pretty vivid description of herself and mentions that she likes guys and gals that the study also shows that the shift to facebook is actually great business wise to the escort to not only give a preview of their services on facebook but they'll usually provide a link to their personal website where they can offer of a better description of their chops so while the facebook is benefiting from all these scandalous traffic i have to ask could this be the end of craigslist you know
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these days everything cradles can do facebook can do just as well if not a bit better now to hookers have moved on this could be symbolic of the sunset on the popular website looks as a facebook is truly turning in to the walmart's of the internet you can do anything keep in touch with old friends sell things even look for hookers now that we've told everybody ladies and let this be a little bit of a warning to you if you see your boyfriend spending more time than usual on facebook he might not just be friending old college buddies if you catch my drift. now in this day and age where you do everything from shopping in banking to socializing on the internet your habits your preferences your personal information are all out there and you have no idea where they might be ending up but how much would you pay to keep your personal information private away from the hands of online marketing companies or better yet how much money would it take for you to be willing to sell your personal information to those same companies these are the
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questions that both startups and technology giants alike are getting answered as they start pushing privacy as a product of this according to a report from the wall street journal so could this be the final shift privacy from this point on forever and always be a commodity instead of just yours here to discuss with me is ryan radke associate director of technology studies at be competitive enterprise institute brian thanks so much for being here first of all how much is going to cost for you to sell your private information online do we all have a price can you be bought i can be bought i think it depends on the information and it depends on the price and who it's going to how it could be protected but i think this notion that we can share information we can make some money off it is a good thing the fact that we're seeing new companies or merge means consumers are going to have more choices and hopefully if they can make a few bucks off their information they'll be willing to share more of it and information sharing is a lot better than the alternative of information poverty which means you get ads
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you don't want to see for instance which i think people are tired of we have tell me you know about some of the options that are out there how how how would this work exactly do you only have to work with one company and you pay that and all of your you know doings on the internet and all of your information out there is private or is it every individual web site that you work with how is this really happening. there's a whole range of options in the industry one example is that all the websites you visit are tracked by a single company sometimes this can work through your internet service provider these are companies like form the way that works is by tracking what types of websites you visit these companies can serve on relevant absolute crap so you can save a few books off your internet bill other instances are where you give your personal information to us to marketing company they then use that information and sell it to other companies so they can target so you'll say this is my name my address this is abuse of my hobby use my income these are things i'm interested in buying and
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all these things involve the customer earning potential of a few dollars or more a month and change in ways information it's just a few bucks if i tell family what my hobbies are i just get a couple of dollars in return it might be activity over me. but when you think about it you've already been doing this for a lot of years when you're on facebook facebook knows your hobbies they're not paying you anything they're giving you a free service similarly with genial google is scanning your emails and using that to target ads based on what's inside your e-mails it's not like there's some individual who's sitting off in some place far away snooping on these computer algorithms trying to do things like serve you better ads or provide you with better deals on products and i want to buy so this is this might seem insidious but this this is really a market that makes a lot of sense for consumers especially is going out is your continues to expand i wonder guidelines thing is that you know this is these aren't entirely i'm charted untested waters that there are
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a lot of these firms that sprung out you could say during the original dot com boom you know back in two thousand but they didn't really find any success that because there didn't seem to be the consumer appetite for it so you know what's what's changed have we finally just woken up better and realize that this is the way that it's kind of being or. you know what was what is it exactly that didn't work the first time a couple things first the internet today is. so much more credible than it was a decade or so ago and people realize how amazing these tools like facebook google social networking sites you tube can be they're more willing to use them and i think some people use realize there's this implicit with pro quo where you're getting what might appear to be a free lunch but it's really an exchange going down another key is that we're we've got a lot better at targeting ads using these algorithms it used to be that figuring out how to use information was tough and it still is tough companies like twitter have all of this information they can figure out how to monetize even facebook despite
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its evaluation still has fairly small revenues but the fact book investors are valuing these companies at such high levels indicates that there's the opinion that over the next few years we're going to figure out a way to better connect buyers and sellers use information people get more comfortable with that gradually you know there's still sort of it factor i think that's going away over time it's a good thing overall for consumers i think everybody if you compare let's say the u.s. and the u.k. and the u.k. they have certain laws on the books right but if you tell a business that you don't want them giving your personal information to marketers then well it's a law they have to comply whereas we don't have that so perhaps our government regulators not doing enough to help out you know the average internet user people like you and i you know to keep our information private if we want it to be that way actually the problem with the u.k. model here in the us we have something called notice and consent once you hand over your data as long as you've been given a go to your dad is going to be collected and used by clicking through some terms
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of service agreement or having ok even if you don't always read it back considered giving your data away whereas the european approach is a much more restrictive approach where you have to be very explicit to your users what you do with their data and they often have you believe to take it back the problem with i just like to throw out of that what if i change my mind it sounds good but when you look at information is a property right you don't have the right to could. well what people know about you if you give it away now i certainly think that if you are comfortable with someone have your nation you should right not to give it to them in the first place and i also think you should have the right not to give information to companies that are willing to say we'll let you come back into some companies are willing to make that claim that if you want to say do we offer server they're not going to retain them other companies are willing to make a better shorts the problem with requiring every company to have to get that data back to you mr hassel and also flips the proper expectations of privacy on its head when someone sees walking on the street that's not information that you control why
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is that when you said the computer requests the web server you can't call it that information because it's my computer and i don't want somebody you know about it no it's actually an interesting you know change and we will see but i think that you know if you do not want anyone to have your information you shouldn't be forced to have to pay for it you should just be able to say notables are this guys thanks for joining us right thanks and before we go tonight we have our tweeted today google has struck again the company says that they accidentally deleted all of the e-mails and contacts for about one hundred fifty thousand users and i say that they're working to correct this issue so tonight we think google c.e.o. eric schmidt should tweet no worries i have all that private info stored on my p.c. at home there for tonight so thanks for tuning in make sure you can back tomorrow there are a lot of different being progressively on the show to discuss the real waste and wisconsin budget woes and the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the longer show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of the night show or any other night you can always catch all the you tube dot com and we'll going to show where we post the interviews as well as the shell in its
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